Barbara Magagna

Barbara Magagna is a landscape ecologist and geo-information scientist with 25 years of experience working in the field of GIS, landscape ecology modelling and database management for projects operating at different scales. Her interests and formation moved in the last 15 years also towards ontology engineering and process facilitation. She had been working for the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, the University of Vienna and since December 2007 for the Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt GmbH) where she undertakes the function of a semantic analyst and database designer. She was involved in the development process of terminologies like SERONTO and EnvThes. She has experience as work package lead related to data management, in the design of UML models and XML schemas in the air quality data reporting area, in the design of semantic models in projects related to Environmental Research Infrastructures (ENVRI). She is now co-chairing the RDA Working Group I-ADOPT which aims at producing an interoperability framework for the semantic representation of observable properties, which is also the topic of her PhD at the University of Twente (NL).